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In a new exclusive series, this publication will report on quarterly mobile site performance as monitored by Catchpoint Systems. Find out in this first installment how leading brands in the retail, banking and travel sectors fared.

While the bricks-and-mortar store will always be a part of the consumer’s repertoire, it needs to be refreshed to avoid the decline seen in music and video retail industry counterparts – who shunned rather than embraced the technological revolution.